Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Data Lakes
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 30 27
Rank change year-on-year -43 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.15% 0.46% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.12% 2.33% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £345
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.50%
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £450 - £495
% change year-on-year - - -17.50%

All Database & BI Skills
Tyne and Wear

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 89 43 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 13.59% 19.63% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 25 9
10th Percentile £313 £411 £409
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% -2.11% -20.83%
75th Percentile £501 £575 £488
90th Percentile £575 £745 £510
North East median daily rate £425 £473 £475
% change year-on-year -10.05% -0.53% -13.64%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks